Posted
by
ScuttleMonkey
on Monday November 23, 2009 @05:43PM
from the no-black-holes-or-gateways-to-hell-yet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Only four days after the first attempt to send a particle beam around the LHC, we have arrived at the point when all four experiments got their first real collisions from the machine. This was met by celebrations and champagne, as people have been waiting years and years for this moment. It is a testament to the engineering of the machine that collisions were reached already, so few days after restarting. The LHC had already demonstrated ca 10h stable beams, and now also stable beams in both directions at the same time. In the coming weeks, we need only wait for increased intensity and the first attempts at acceleration."

Why even bother posting LHC news on/. anymore. It's just top to bottom black hole and collision jokes. The bottom of the barrel has been scraped, and you guys have worked your way through the wood and there is light peeking through on the other side. No funny can escape from this. These are the same jokes that occur every day in the upper atmosphere at much higher humor levels than we can manage. The universe is actively avoiding the discovery of a funny black hole joke, and will mysteriously break any attempts to discover it.

What I love so much about the LHC is that despite all these theories about everything, one may actually get to become proven.

Aside from the point that we falsify not "prove" theories, there's the point that we may end up with many valid theories explaining the same thing. There need not be only one way to explain the universe, but many equivalent ways.